[eraser] Ghost in the Shell ARISE – 01 (BD)

These are just modified official subs, so don’t expect too much in terms of screenies and issues.

Just a note for fellow Ghost in the Shell fans – this is a prequel. That means that Motoko is using a different prosthetic body and therefore has a slightly different character design. You have been warned, so no complaining!

Now, onto the release.

The 1080p release is straightforward, but the 720p is not. You can see this right from the filename: [eraser] Ghost in the Shell: ARISE — border:1 Ghost Pain (BD 720p Hi444PP Opus 5.1).mkv

Yes, Hi444PP. Yes, Opus 5.1. For you guys on Windows machines, most of you won’t have an issue with the latest CCCP and MPC. But those of us on a Mac and those of you on Linux are gonna have a bad time. I have heard that the latest mplayer2 binaries support these formats, but you have to compile it yourself since there aren’t any builds using it as far as I know. I tested this in MPlayer OSX Extended, MPlayerX, the build of MPlayer2 I had, and VLC. None of them worked with the audio. I got no audio in the first, static in the second and third, and an error in the fourth.

So I went into eraser’s IRC channel, and he linked me to the AAC audio, which was 70mb. I downloaded it and then went to mux it. However, the Mac version of mkvmerge wouldn’t even open the original mkv since it had no idea how to read the audio file. I ended up using advanced options to open everything in VLC but fuck, that was a shitton of work.

So anyway.

Filesize: 810.5mbEnglish: American, no honorifics

Karaoke

No songs to karaoke. And by that I mean that the songs are all atmospheric awesomeness without Japanese. Well, that’s not quite true. The ED has random Japanese words, but nothing that’s supposed to make any sense.

Typesetting

Good enough.

Good enough.

I’d like to know what this says.

Ha. Hahaha.

But that being said, I don’t really know what I’d do here, since it scrolls. Maybe cover up a whole column and typeset that scrolling?

Script

This is not how you overlap.

The phrase is “Sit up straight!”

“go” is a verb, so you need “independent” to be in adverb form. That would be “independently”.

I’d actually use “be independent” instead.

This sentence is awkward as fuck.

Your sleepless eye is very easy to infiltrate. That’s it’s weakness.

Meh, that’s not even all that good, but it’s better than that shit.

tl;dr: This release is pretty good outside of the file format issues, but I bet the source didn’t have that many problems to begin with. If you can get it to play, there’s no reason to not watch it.

And that’s why I don’t think using “go” works at all and suggested something else. That sentence could have different meanings based on how you read it. I think the suggestion later in the comments “become a free agent” is the best way to put it and eliminates all these issues.

My issue is more with the vagueness of the sentence than the grammar of it, after all.

mplayer2 (or even better: mpv, but it doesn’t work in traditional GUIs (yet?)) have no problem playing the file.
The problem is not the player but the underlying AV library (ffmpeg in most cases) because support for libraries like opus is not enabled by default when compiling them.
If you enable such additional libs (like I did) there’s no problem playing the file. http://puu.sh/3tKO3.jpg :)

I assume you want to stick to a traditional GUI and already switched the mplayer binary in ‘MPlayer OSX Extended’ with mplayer2? You could compile your own mplayer2 binary (+ ffmpeg with additional libraries) and put it into MPOSXE, would be a ~2-3 liner in Terminal (by using a neat package manager called homebrew) but requires you to download Xcode.

I use mpv, you can compile it or get it on homebrew. Opus is found by mpv but it can’t read 6 channels yet so I converted to AAC (libfdk_aac is the best version) audio and used MKVToolnix to mux the audio in.

To clarify: if it wasn’t for prescriptivism, people wouldn’t forget that English grammar is actually just whatever sounds natural to English speakers, and therefore they wouldn’t get hung up on silly rules that have no relevance to the ways in which people actually speak to each other.

Calyrica! I have a request! Is there any chance of you doing a translation comparison of the Nichijou releases from Coalgirls and the Underwater-Commie script version? (DESS has released a nice BD version of the underwater/commie) I think the Coalgirls version uses R1 subs.

It’s one of my favourite shows, and I’m just wondering which translation brings across the jokes most naturally etc. It’d be awesome if you did a comparison.

Ah, did they? Do you know if they changed much from the official subs? I was told that this release made very few very slight changes, so if Commie used the same source, I honestly doubt there’d be much difference besides maybe some typesetting.

I’m really curious right now and want to say ‘Can you please upload a photo. Just blur what we need not see.’ but I remember that the dictionary is created to make a list of word/s’ meaning, synonym, antonym, whatsodamnever. If there is a collection/tablet/or sort that dictates how/what words we *must* use for a particular situation, god forbid. Much if all people speaks only one language and the language did not evolve.